DTLA FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS:
7 ENEMY NATIONS
Total Running Time 84 minutes / 5 films
As an integral part of this year's 7 Enemy Nations series, in this program we showcase short films from countries identified by the Trump administration as "enemy states" in its current attempt to re-write the U.S. immigration policy. Are the people and subjects of these films enemies of our nation? You decide....
SING FOR ME
Iraq | Documentary | 2015 | 38 min.
Director: Sama Waham
Additional Credits: Writer: Sama Waham, Producer: Sama Waham, Cinematographer: Sama Waham
Sing For Me is a poetic documentary that contemplates the notion of belonging and inherited nostalgia, while investigating the viewpoint of fractured diasporic identities and ethnic solidarity, and meditating on Mandaeanism; a fading ancient practice that goes back to Babylonian history. A personal journey that follows a river to meet Baghdad, the film travels through shared family memory and archival footage that provide a glimpse of Iraq’s defeated dreams of a modern and just society. The journey is guided by a familiar voice from the past, found on an old audiotape in an abandoned box, to a new exposition of ‘home’.
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Sama Waham
swaham836@gmail.com
A LIFE STORY
Libya | Narrative | 2016 | 14 min.
Director: Muhannad Lamin
The story of Amen, a young man who left home and across the Sahara in order to provide for his family in militia controlled Libya.
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Muhannad Lamin
muhannadlamin@gmail.com
THE AUDITION
Somalia | Narrative | 2015 | 4 min.
Director: Zak Salad
Additional Credits: Writer: Olivia Topley, Cinematographer: Joseph Sy
The Audition portrays the narrative of two Black Actors who go on an audition for a tv series, they are subjected to numerous negative stereotypes and various versions of racial profiling.
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Zak Salad
zaksalad@gmail.com
ONE WEEK AND TWO DAYS
Sudan | Narrative | 2017 | 20 min.
Director: Marwa Zein
The relationship of a loving couple is challenged when they were trying to conceive a baby. Big decision should be made by both in such critical times.
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Marwa Zein
Marwazeinfilm@gmail.com
Director's Bio
Sudanese filmmaker was born in Saudi Arabia & resident in Egypt. Graduate at high cinema institute in Cairo. She's an Alumni of many prestigious film institutions such as Berlinale, IDFA Academy & Durban Talent Campus. She was selected in many international film workshops such as: Haile Gerima, Tom Tykwer and Jihan El-Tahri besides Denmark national film school Course by Arne Bro. She worked as assistant director in Egypt with many well- known film directors like (Hala Khalil, Dawoud Abdelsayed, Shady El Fakharany and Khairy Beshara). She directed and produced 6 short documentaries and short fiction, Her graduation project “A game” is award winning short film internationally and nationally that was translated into 5 languages. El Mawred El Thakafy chose her to direct the documentary film for changing cultural policies in Egypt after Revolution 2014. Her 1st Long documentary film (Off Khartoum Sides) is supported by CNC.
NOT COVERED
Yemen | Narrative | 2017 | 7 min.
Director: Ezat Wagdi
When the camera becomes a passion, a curse, and at the same time a tool for disclosing the antinomies between Yemen and the rest of the world.
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Ezat Wagdi
ezatwagdi@gmail.com
Sat, Sep 23 - Mon, Jan 1
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